Battersea: St Stephen
Overview
Grid reference: TQ 275 764
The style is fourteenth century and purposely very simple: the most striking feature being the elegant four-stage tower capped by an octagonal broached spire.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave with lean-to aisles, chancel with an apsidal sanctuary, to the north of the chancel is a tower and to the south a chapel. The vestries are beneath the chancel and apse. Entrance is through a western narthex.
Description of Archaeology and History
St. Stephen was the penultimate church built at the expense of the Bishop of Rochester's "Ten Churches Fund" at a cost of £4,700.
Exterior Description
It is a pleasant building of yellow stocks relieved with red brick and roofed with slates. The style is fourteenth century and purposely very simple: the most striking feature being the elegant four-istage tower capped by an octagonal broached spire.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is most effective and has the advantage that a small congregation would not feel lost in it. The five-bay nave has arcades of moulded red brick supported on octagonal stone piers. The aisles have no windows on the north and south walls, only couplets at the west. But in spite of this the interior is well lit by the largo clerestory and the three tall lancets in the west wall. The proporitions of the low wide chancel arch, also of red brick, have been changed by the addition of a poor carved wooden screen - a memorial of the 1914-18 War. Set into the south wall of the apse is a double sedilia of carved wood and in the north wall is a wooden aumbry.
Fixtures and fittings
Reredos
1941
Of moulded hardboard with painted decoration in rust-brown and gold, by Martin Travers.
Rail
Plain wooden communion rails
Font (object)
Plain octagonal stone font
Pulpit
Of oak, designed by White
Pew (object)
Plain pitch pine
Lectern
Wooden eagle
Churchyard
Grid reference: TQ 275 764
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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